Parallel Efforts to Wiki

Our work launched with support inspired by Code For America and their fellowship program. The thinking goes back to the first few years operating wiki and observing the proliferation of implementations that suffered under the capture effect of the largest sites.

Dat is a nonprofit-backed community & open protocol for building apps of the future. The Dat Project imagines a web of commons created by global communities on open and secure protocols. site

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others. site

IPFS is the Distributed Web that remains true to the original vision of the open and flat web, but delivers the technology which makes that vision a reality. The Internet has been one of the great equalizers in human history and a real accelerator of innovation. But the increasing consolidation of control is a threat to that. site

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology. site

The Internet Archive's Decentralized Web Summit is dedicated to creating the web we want and deserve. We are convening those who want to build a web that: Remembers. Forgets. That’s safe. That cares about people. That’s a marketplace. That’s a public square. That learns. That’s magical. That’s fun. A web with many winners. A web that’s locked open for good. site